Jhootha Sach, translated into English as This Is Not That Dawn, was written by:
- A.Yashpal
- B.Kamleshwar
- C.Rahi Masoom Raza
- D.Premchand
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The correct answer is A, Yashpal. Jhootha Sach is a Hindi novel in two parts, the first on Lahore before the division and the second on the lives of those uprooted by it, and it is among the longest works of fiction on Partition. Option B is wrong because Kamleshwar wrote Kitne Pakistan, another Hindi novel on the division, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2003; the two Hindi titles are regularly swapped in options. Option C is wrong because Rahi Masoom Raza wrote Adha Gaon, set in a Shia village of Uttar Pradesh during these years. Option D is wrong because Premchand died in 1936, more than a decade before Partition, and his novels Godan and Nirmala belong to an earlier phase of Hindi writing; a date check alone rules this option out.
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- A.Khushwant Singh
- B.Bhisham Sahni
- C.Manohar Malgonkar
- D.Chaman Nahal
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- A.Urdu
- B.Punjabi
- C.Hindi
- D.Bengali
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- A.Amrita Pritam
- B.Krishna Sobti
- C.Ismat Chughtai
- D.Attia Hosain
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- B.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- C.Henry Vincent Hodson
- D.Narendra Singh Sarila
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- A.Jawaharlal Nehru
- B.Rajendra Prasad
- C.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- D.Vallabhbhai Patel
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